On Sat, Apr 04 2009, Noah Slater wrote: > On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 01:35:17PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: >> opts=handler=svn http://domain.tld/svn/foo/...> >> would do the right thing. > > What about uscan being able to use custom make targets in debian/rules? > > There could be a way to tell uscan to use the following: > > debian/rules get-orig-source > > debian/rules check-version > > This allows developers the flexibility to handle any situation, and > doesn't bloat uscan by having to add all kinds of fancy handlers for > different version control systems. > > As a concrete benefit, my nightly cron to check uscan for all my > packages will be able to alert me about the ones pulled from > repository revisions, all I would need to do is add a new > "check-version" target.
Why bloat debian/rules? ALl this can be done using the current mechanism of just adding a script into the watchfile, and does not tie down uscan to the debian checked out source. manoj -- Each person has the right to take the subway. Manoj Srivastava <sriva...@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org